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Daily Archives: March 28, 2018

Well, not a day, but, with apologies to Solzhenitsyn (damn, I’m glad spell check jumped in here!), it gives me an excuse to extol the virtues of driving an EV. Don’t get me wrong, I like my Silverado, and it does a great job pulling the boat, hauling other trailers, hauling dogs, driving on the beach, and so forth…but I sure do wish GM made electric trucks! I didn’t have but one errand to run today, just a 2.5 mile (one way) trip to the dentist, but I sure do love to drive the Chevy Bolt. Heck, it’s not a Tesla in Ludicrous Mode, but press the sport button, push the accelerator, and you will zip you into traffic with the instantaneous torque only an EV can offer. Zip up to 45 mph, slow down to 35 in the EI business district, back to 45, then whip around the new roundabout (using one pedal driving with huge regen braking) and over to the dentist. Reverse it going back, and I used 1 kWh, about 9 cents, for the 5 miles…and fun to drive.